Mistral AI's Le Chat is a free, capable AI assistant powered by open-weight models. API access on La Plateforme has industry-competitive pricing. Free, no card needed.
Free
Le Chat Plan
No credit card · Open-weight models · EU-based (France)
🇪🇺EU-based & open-weight — France-based provider — GDPR-friendly, with self-hostable open-weight model releases
💰Competitive API pricing — La Plateforme API pricing beats major competitors at similar quality benchmarks
🧠Strong reasoning & coding — Competitive on coding and reasoning benchmarks with much larger closed-weight models
🆓Genuinely free tier — Le Chat Pro features available on a real free plan — not a time-limited trial